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Originally Posted by Glorfindel
Define 'Windows 8 desktop rig'. While most users may not be able to tell you what version of 7 they have, I have yet to meet someone who didn't know Windows 8 when they saw it.
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That insinuation was based off HarryT's seeming implication that "general-purpose OS" is one where the user needs to know what he is using in order to use it properly -- I insinuated right back that most people don't know how to use Windows and whatever knowledge they may have that "this is Windows" certainly isn't helping them use it any more effectively.
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Also, 'a smartphone or tablet' is far too broad a term to be using here; no one would argue that a Nexus running Ubuntu Touch was running linux. Nor would anyone claim that a Lumia with Windows Phone 8 was a linux device.
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You are simply being ridiculous now.
- I have been claiming that Android is meaningfully linux. What does that have to do with a device that is running Ubuntu rather than Android? Please stop being orthogonal.
- I did not suggest Windows devices are really linux devices, I merely asked, if HarryT's inscrutable standards for "general-purpose OS" seem to be specifically excluding mobile devices, surely that must mean mobile devices running Windows 8 are also not a "general-purpose OS".